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e-fa News Round-Up May 2010

The European Free Alliance (EFA) draws together political parties fighting for democracy and self-determination for the stateless nations and regions of Europe. European Free Alliance MEPs sit in a joint European parliamentary group with the Greens, making up the fourth largest group in parliament.E...
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Food quality

Commenting on today's European Parliament vote to ban on the use of meat glue (bovine and/or porcine thrombin) in food (1), Carl Schlyter, Vice-president of the Environment Committee said: "We are happy that today the parliament banned the use of meat glue (Thrombin) in food. The Parliament was...
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Novel food

Commenting on today's vote on the Novel Food Regulation in the Environment Committee, Green MEP Martin Häusling said: "The research underlying the study 'Cloned farm animals' (1) concluded that cloning could have adverse health effects. Higher rates of infection, along with diseases and malfor...
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Industrial emissions

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Agro-Biotechnology

Risks and consequences of the introduction of cloned animals for food production A Testbiotech Report prepared for Matin Häusling, MEP.
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Falsified medicines and pharmacovigilance

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GM maize and coexistence

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Amflora potato

Presidents of the EU Parliament's largest political groups today blocked a Greens/EFA request - supported by the GUE/NGL Group - for a debate on GMOs in next week's plenary session in Strasbourg. The request follows the EU Commission's decision to authorise cultivation of the gen...
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Letter to Commissioner John Dalli on Amflora potato

'Amflora' contains a gene which conveys resistance to antibiotics classified as 'critically important' and 'increasingly important' by the WHO and EMEA. Greens/EFA find it highly questionable that the Health Commissioner authorise a GM plant with an antibiotic marker gene, against the warning of the Authority under your responsibility, Eu…
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GMOs

The European Commission has issued the first new cultivation authorisation for a genetically-modified plant variety in 12 years, despite health and environment concerns. The resistance of one of its genes to medically-valuable antibiotics has been identified as a particular problem.